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End of Month View: Saying Goodbye to Summer
01.10.2023 - 09:43 / ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com / Cathy
It seems to have been ‘late summer’ for a number of weeks, but now that October is nigh it is probably more appropriate to think of it as autumn. The garden has been winding down, admittedly, and there are signs of colour change in the trees, but there is still much of interest in the garden and the roses are certainly in denial in a late flush of excitement. I have begun cutting back where appropriate, but foliage on most perennials is still luxuriously healthy and the first frost is not yet imminent (early December last year, early November the year before).
Starting our ramble around the garden with the iconic view from the back of the house (above), we can see that the clematis on the pergola have finally flowered themselves out although there are still clematis in bloom elsewhere. Below, we brush past growth in the streamside grass and shrub border as we pass through, ignoring the earthworks around the stream reservoir.
The woodland is a restful green haven, albeit much of the green is ivy and Herb Robert, and from the bothy at the other end we can look down on the bottom section of the garden, before looking at the main borders from ground level instead. The aster ‘Little Carlow’ stands out like a sore thumb, towering over adjacent plants, and will be moved in due course.
The woodland edge border is also very green, but much of this greenness will die back leaving space for the snowdrops to emerge in the new year. In the second view, from the other direction, the rhododendrons here are looking much healthier than twelve months ago, when they suffered from the hot summer.
The relatively new grass border needs some attention, with some of the Stipa tenuissima removed perhaps, but the two bold borders have performed
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